Drill of the Cannon: The Shooting

When one has a clown for a father.

Drill of the Cannon: The Checking

Well, father Coquardeau, this one is really nice and fresh. - Gosh! I should think so too.

Drill of the Cannon: The Preparation

The Oyster. (You'll wake me up at dinner time.) Big, fat, thick, plump, greedy, wakes up only for the purpose of taking in food and sleeps only for the purpose of digesting it. The oyster does not eat for living, but lives for eating. Its locomotive and industrial apparatus are non existent. It vegetates on the spot and its existence is manifested only by the exactitude, the number and the quality of the meals. The entire energy of the oyster is located in the stomach. One might call it an animal of pleasure, its only mission in life being to consume without working, while others work without consuming. It seems to be perfectly at ease with this providential mission. (Lacépède – Natural History.)

Drill of the Arquebus: Shooting

Drill of the Arquebus: Preparing to Shoot

Fearless Ones

Drill of the Arquebus: The Loading